Varon Exam Prep Ch.10 Is This Hell? Fort Pillow To Atlanta

Chapter 10: Is This Hell? Fort Pillow to Atlanta

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 1

1) The February 1864 plan to attack Richmond included the distribution of copies of the ________.

a. Emancipation Proclamation

b. the report on the Union prison system

c. Ten Percent Plan

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 2

2) The purpose of the attack on Fort Pillow was to ________.

a. undermine Sherman's progress

c. retake Tennessee

d. pacify guerillas in the area

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 3

3) The attack on Fort Pillow ended with a ________.

a. narrow Union victory

b. brutal massacre

d. massive Union victory

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 4

4) Figure 10.1 was intended to raise ________.

a. Southerners' awareness of Confederate atrocities

b. doubts about the righteousness of the Union cause

c. support for the Ten Percent Plan

d. sympathy for African American soldiers

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 5

5) Which of these led Lincoln to abandon the Dix-Hill cartel system?

a. feelings about Fort Pillow

b. Confederate reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation

d. reactions to the Ten Percent Plan

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 6

6) The Overland Campaign had the effect of turning Andersonville from ________ to ________.

a. overcrowded; lethal

c. full; overcrowded

d. horrifying; tolerable

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 7

7) The images in Figure 10.2 would have had the impact of ________ Union feelings about treatment of POWs.

a. inflaming

c. reversing

d. complicating

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 8

8) Suspension of the Dix-Hill system was met with ________ in the Union.

a. celebration

b. violence

c. opposition

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 9

9) At the Wilderness Lee intentionally used the terrain to ________.

a. slow Grant's counterattack

b. protect his cavalry

c. remove the Union advantage

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 10

10) Which of these aspects of the Overland Campaign is illustrated by Map 10.1?

a. the siege of Richmond

b. Grant's steady progress south

d. Lee's success in drawing Grant away from Richmond

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 11

11) The Overland Campaign cost the Union and Confederate armies ________ and ________ percent of their forces respectively.

a. 40; 36

c. 23; 67

d. 9; 25

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 12

12) In Map 10.2 Lee's move from the Wilderness to Spotsylvania appears ________.

a. deliberate

c. a rout

d. chaotic

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 13

13) Grant's actions in the Overland Campaign were ________.

a. bold but unsuccessful

b. overly cautious and a failure

c. successful but costly

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 14

14) Sherman began his Atlanta Campaign with the goal of ________.

a. stopping reinforcement of Lee's forces

c. taking Georgia

d. ending the Overland Campaign

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 15

15) Under its 1864 constitution Louisiana did NOT ________.

a. use the contract labor system

b. give blacks the vote

d. permit blacks in the public education system

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 16

16) In 1864 Lincoln ran for president as the ________ nominee.

a. Radical Democracy

b. Democrat

c. Republican

d. National Union

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 17

17) Which of these was NOT one of the former Confederate states that sent delegates to the National Union party convention in 1864?

a. Louisiana

b. Arkansas

c. Tennessee

d. Georgia

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 18

18) Unlike Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan the Wade-Davis Bill required former Confederate states to ________ to be readmitted to the Union.

a. swear oaths of loyalty

b. states maintained their status as US states

c. guarantee slaves' freedom

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 19

19) The Wade-Davis bill ended with ________.

a. unanimous passage

b. narrow passage

c. a pocket veto

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 20

20) Surrendering and retreating black soldiers were executed, and those taken prisoner at the Battle of the Crater were ________.

a. sold into slavery

c. exchanged

d. paroled

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 21

21) "Railroad generalship" refers to the Union ________.

a. practice of rushing military leaders to battlefronts on trains

b. strategy to control Confederate supply lines

d. use of railroads for transport

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 22

22) As with Grant's Overland Campaign, Sherman's Atlanta Campaign featured ________ (Map 10.3).

a. a disastrous Confederate retreat

b. a string of bloody sieges

c. the Union's steady push south

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 23

23) The Union bombardment of Atlanta on August 9 ________.

a. caused massive civilian casualties

b. was followed by a Union retreat

c. led to the city's surrender

d. failed to to dislodge Hood

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 24

24) The leader of the Confederate Copperheads was ________.

a. Alexander Stephens

c. Jefferson Davis

d. George McClellan

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10, Question 25

25) Alexander Stephens suggested making peace proposals to the North to ________.

a. bring the war to a quick conclusion

b. oust Jefferson Davis from office

c. weaken Lincoln's bid for reelection